Synesius of Cyrene

Mosaic depicting an angel. Museum of Ptolemais

Synesius
of Cyrene (c.370-c.413) was a Neo-Platonic
philosopher who became bishop of Ptolemais
in the Cyrenaica.
He left behind a small corpus of texts that offer much information
about daily life in Late Antiquity, and about the
christianization
of the Roman world.

Letter
65, written in 402, is offered here in the
translation by A.
Fitzgerald.